kettle

• By the kettle were a catering tin of cheap instant coffee, a box of sugar cubes, and a jar of coffee whitener. —  Conferences are Murder - McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 04
• But I just finsihed it and the kettle is all the way downstairs ... —  B3ta
• Or to take a more familiar example, the fur on the inside of a tea-kettle is carbonate of lime; and for anything chemistry tells us to the contrary, the chalk might be a kind of gigantic fur upon the bottom of the earth-kettle, which is kept pretty hot below But the slice of chalk presents a totally different appearance when placed under the microscope. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
• On the kettle was a perpendicular spout covered with a heavy stone. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• We have it on unimpeachable authority that this kettle was the kettle in residence at the establishment of our late colleague Miss Constantia Lawson, the Senior Classic of her year! —  A College Girl

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